Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) has been reshaping how he talks about abortion amid widespread speculation that he could be tapped as former President Trump's running mate.

Much like Trump, who is expected to announce his vice president pick by this weekend, Vance has been trying to show he can moderate on the issue.

He previously applauded the overturning of Roe v. Wade and supported Texas's ban on abortion, which does not allow exceptions other than cases where the mother's life is at risk.

“Two wrongs don’t make a right,” he said in 2021 when asked whether abortion laws should allow for exceptions for rape and incest.

When voters in his home state approved a constitutional amendment protecting abortion and other forms of reproductive health care, Vance called it a “gut punch.”

But Vance has more recently praised and echoed Trump’s position that states can make their own abortion laws, and that there needs to be exceptions for rape, incest and the mother’s life.

In a July 7 interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Vance called Trump a “pragmatic leader” for his leave-it-to-the-states approach.

That’s in contrast to his Senate campaign, when Vance said during a debate in 2022 that “some minimum national standard is totally fine with me.”

In the same "Meet the Press" interview, Vance also said he supports mifepristone “being accessible,”........

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